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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
A very important point in managing a blog is security. Even though nobody wants to lose all of their data, security is often neglected by many WordPress users. Hacking into blogs is far more prevalent than you may think. A Google search for 'My blog was hacked' gives a count of around two million web pages.
In this chapter, you'll learn how to protect your blog from various sorts of hacking by creating database backups to protect your wp-admin directory from brute force attacks.
In this chapter, you will learn:
Creating manual backups of your WordPress blog
Restoring a MySQL backup
Creating backups of your WordPress files
Using a shell script to create automatic files and database backups
Securing your plugins directory
Removing a WordPress version from the theme files
Getting rid of the Administrator account
Automatically forbid login after some failed login attempt
Protecting the wp-admin directory against brute force with the help of AskApache plugin
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